Anytime you use a movie to try and send controversial societal messages, YOU LOSE! This was like a ship with without a rudder, with awkward dialogue, and a terrible plot.
I gave this a 2 because I really like Ice Cube...but I gotta say this movie pretty much sucked, it should be called "The Final Cut". This movie tried to use real life as a political backdrop, but then created the most unrealistic setting/story-line/script...c'mon you can't be both, either your a fantastical movie about a quirky urban barbershop, or you're boyz-n-the-hood.
There was a lot of dialogue going in this flick, the problem is this is supposed to be a fun comedy not a soap box to propagate more anger about things that are so controversial (and fabricated) like Trevon, Freddie, or Brown (all of which who were found through evidence and truth, to have been at fault).
The hate mongers in society are making things worse by mis- portraying, the media who are starved for ratings and viewership are feeding on it and the victims are the misguided souls who eat it up and hold signs...and sadly Hollywood is trying to capitalize on it.
I wished I had of passed this one up.
I gave this a 2 because I really like Ice Cube...but I gotta say this movie pretty much sucked, it should be called "The Final Cut". This movie tried to use real life as a political backdrop, but then created the most unrealistic setting/story-line/script...c'mon you can't be both, either your a fantastical movie about a quirky urban barbershop, or you're boyz-n-the-hood.
There was a lot of dialogue going in this flick, the problem is this is supposed to be a fun comedy not a soap box to propagate more anger about things that are so controversial (and fabricated) like Trevon, Freddie, or Brown (all of which who were found through evidence and truth, to have been at fault).
The hate mongers in society are making things worse by mis- portraying, the media who are starved for ratings and viewership are feeding on it and the victims are the misguided souls who eat it up and hold signs...and sadly Hollywood is trying to capitalize on it.
I wished I had of passed this one up.